Breaking the last year’s record of issuing pet dog licenses in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has issued over 800 licenses in the current financial year which is the highest in the history of the corporation.
Informing this, the senior veterinary officer of the corporation Dr DC Tiwari said that last year, the MCD issued about 536 pet dog licenses which were the highest till a few months ago but in the present financial year, the number of licenses has already crossed over 800 licenses and this number will possibly increase in the coming months too. Talking about the procedure to get a pet dog license in the corporation, Tiwari said that an applicant should have a rabies vaccination certificate of their dog from a veterinarian. The MCD charges Rs 200 fees to issue the license which remains valid for one year and the license must be renewed the next year on time, said Tiwari.
Moreover, the officials also informed that there are thousands of pet dogs in the city but very few people actually have genuine licenses. However, they informed that the corporation is also planning to aware locals to register their dogs in the corporation and get the pet dog license. Tiwari said that the corporation is sending notices to locals in some areas to get the pet license from the corporation or else, the owners will have to bear the charges of the penalty imposed by MCD. “We are giving some time to locals to become aware of the pet dog license but soon we will start imposing fines. After the first warning, the corporation will charge Rs 500 fine and subsequently Rs 5000 if the owner continues to ignore pet dog license,” stated Tiwari. Besides this, the officials also stated that the corporation will start the survey of pet dogs the next year in the city to get an estimation of the total pet dogs in Dehradun.
Meanwhile, the officials also informed that MCD is regularly picking dogs from various areas of the city on the complaints of locals. The dogs are kept under observation or else, they are left in the same area after the treatment. The officials added that the locals can complain about dogs including pet or stray dogs to the corporation if they are creating a nuisance to people in their locality.
Thursday, 10 December 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
